Table 2.

Gender attitudes on early child bearing (percent who agreed to selected statements) among tribals and non-tribals young married people

Statements	Tribal %	Non-tribal %	P-value (Chi-square)
If a couple doesn’t have a child then it’s a woman’s fault	27.8	18.2	0.061
It’s a woman’s responsibility to avoid getting pregnant	59.3	51.5	0.209
Women should conceive within one year of marriage to avoid shame	50.0	31.5	0.002
It is husbands who can decide when to have first child	68.5	50.3	0.003
The real man is the one who has child within one year of marriage	23.2	16.9	0.207
Early child bearing makes women valuable in family and society	51.9	37.0	0.015